You only have to look behind you :: musical sensory recall

Keep Art Alive :: Art by Derek Gores “Everything you touch you don’t feel, do not know what you steal. Shakes your hand, takes your gun, walks you out of the sun.” Science Fiction, other-worldly, spinning through space kind of sound, and song. I close my eyes and picture the Tardis circling through time, Leeloo falling into Dallas’ cab, and Alice leaving the infected behind to run off to a post-Goth club with Neo pre-being-the-“One”. This song is part of a soundtrack I have set aside for one of the two novels I am writing. I feel it in the … Continue reading You only have to look behind you :: musical sensory recall

Before I met you :: Two tune Saturday

Keep Art Alive :: Art by Vincent Cacciotti “Worn me down to my knees, I did anything to please, but you can’t stop thinking about her.”   Worn Me Down :: Rachael Yamagata To live in the shadow of someone else’s past love is one of the roughest roads to traverse upon when in a relationship. It is a constant competition, even if unspoken, to somehow come out ahead, and to finally overtake the memory of a ghost of a girl (or boy) who still haunts the one who holds your hand now. It is exhausting. It is emotionally brutal. … Continue reading Before I met you :: Two tune Saturday

It looks like darkness to me :: video of the day

Miami (live) :: Counting Crows “Can I say, I wish that this weather would never leave? It just gets hard to believe, that God sent this Angel to watch over me. Cause my Angel, she don’t receive my calls, says I’m too dumb to fuck, too dumb to fight, too dumb to save. Well, maybe I don’t need no Angel at all.” Continue reading It looks like darkness to me :: video of the day

I need you so much closer :: song of the day

“The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flat lands to your door, have been silenced forever more. The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row, it seems farther than ever before.” Distance seemed irrelevant when you were here by my side, it seemed surmountable and full of possibility. We were part of the age of the internet, were we not? We were used to the cords of connections fused through the ether and knotted together by words exchanged. We were used to being so far away from the people who seemed to recognize us the most clearly. … Continue reading I need you so much closer :: song of the day